John Finn's Wife
Nick Cave

Well, the night was deep and the night was dark
And I was at the old dance hall on the edge of town, yeah
Some big ceremony was going down
Well dancers writhed and squirmed and then

Came apart and then writhed again
Like squirming flies on a pin
In the heat and in the din, in the heat and in the din
I fell to thinking about brand new wife of mad John Finn

Well, midnight came and clock did strike
And in she came, did John Finn's wife
With legs like scissors and butcher's knives
Tattooed breast and flaming eyes

And a crimson carnation in her teeth
Carving her way through the dance floor
And I'm standing over by the bandstand
Every eye gaping on John Finn's wife
Every eye gaping on John Finn's wife
Oh yeah

Now John Finn's wife was something of a mystery
In a town where to share a sworn secret was a solemn duty
I had brass knuckles and a bolo knife
Over near the bandstand with John Finn's wife

She got perfumed breasts and raven hair
Sprinkled with wedding confettis
And a gang of garroters were all giving me stares
Armed, as they were, with machetes

Well the night through the window was full of lights
Winking and watching at John Finns' wife
Winking and watching at John Finns' wife

Well next came the cops, all out on the town
But it don't look like no trouble there
As they had for the bar in their lumpy suits
And I slip my hand between the things of John Finn's wife

They seemed to yawn awake, her things
It was a warm and very ferocious night
And the moon was full of blood and light
And my eyes grew small and my eyes grew tight
As I plotted in the ear of John Finns' wife

Enter John Finn in his shrunken suit
With his quick black eyes and black cheroot
With his filled down teeth and a hobnail boot
And his fists full of pistols in his pockets
Aiming at me and aiming at his wife

The band fall silent fearing for their lives
And with fear in my guts like tangled twine
'Cause all I got is brass knuckles and a bolo knife
And mad John Finns' wife is all
And the three of us walk out of the hall

Now the night bore down upon us all
You could hear the crickets in the thickets call
Guns did flare and guns did bawl
And I planted my bolo knife in the neck of mad John Finn

I took his wretched life
Now I'm over by the bandstand
Every hand moving on John Finns' wife
Every hand moving on John Finns' wife

And John Finns' wife took all the flowers down
From her hair and threw them on the ground
And the flies did hum and the flies did buzz around
Poor John Finn lying dead upon the ground
Lying dead upon the ground


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PJ Harvey   Hey Joe   Hey, Joe   Hiding All Away   Higgs Boson Blues   Ho-Ho   How Long, How Long Blues   I Do Dear, I Do.   I Do Love Her So   I Do Love Her So (Lime Tree Arbour)   I Feel So Good   I Had A Dream Joe   I Had A Dream, Joe   I Just Dropped In   I Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condit...   I Let Love In   I Need You   I Put A Spell On You   I Rowed A Little Boat   I'm Gonna Kill That Woman   I'm Your Man   I'm Gonna Kill That Woman   Idiot Prayer   In The Ghetto   Into My Arms   Intro   Jack The Ripper   Jack's Shadow   Jacks Shadow   Jangling Jack   Jennifer's Veil   Jennifer's Veil   Jesus Alone   Jesus Met The Woman At The Well   John Finn's Wife   Jubilee Street   Junkyard   Just You and Me   Katy Cruel   Kewpie Doll   King Ink   King Kong Kitchee Kitchee Ki-Mi-O   Kiss Me Black   Knockin' On Joe   Knockin' On Joe   Knoxville Girl   Lament   Lay Me Low   Let It Be   Let The Bells Ring   Lime Tree Arbour   Little Empty Boat   Little Janey's Gone   Little Janey's Gone   Long Black Veil   Long Time Man   Lord of the plains   Love Henry   Love Letter   Lovely Creature   Loverman   Lucy   Mack The Knife   Magneto   Mama s room   Mama's Boy   Mama's Boy   Mars Theme   Mercy   Mermaids   Messiah Ward   Midnight Man   Mini Skirts [Instrumental]   Miss Perfect   Mister Frog Went A-Courting   Mojo   Mountain lion mean   Mr. Clarinet   Muddy Water   Mutiny In Heaven   Nature Boy   Needle Boy   New Morning   Nick The Stripper   Nobody's Baby Now   Nobody's Baby Now   O Children   O'Malley's Bar   O'malley's Bar   Oh Happy Day [DVD][Instrumental]   Oh My Lord   Oh, Happy Day   Opium Tea   Outlaw state of mind   Oxford Tragedy   Papa Won't Leave You, Henry   Papa Won't Leave You, Henry   PATRIPASSIAN   People Ain't No Good   People Ain't No Good   Plain Gold Ring   Pleasure Is The Boss   Push The Sky Away   Rainy Night In Soho   Red Right Hand   Release The Bats   Riddle House   Right Now I'm a - Roaming   Right Now I'm A Roamin'   Right Now I'm A-roaming   Right Now I'm A Roamin'   Right Out Of Your Hand   Rings of Saturn   Robbery   Rock Of Gibraltar   Running Scared   Rye Whiskey   Sad Dark Eyes   Sad Waters   Sail Away   Saint Huck   Say Goodbye To The Little Girl Tree   Scum   Several Sins   She Fell Away   She Passed By My Window   She's Hit   She's Leaving You   She's Hit   She's Leaving You   Shivers   Silent Scream   Six Inch Gold Blade   Skeleton Tree   Sleeping Analeah   Sleeping on the blacktop   Slowly Goes The Night   Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart   Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart   Song Of Joy   Sonny's Burning   Sorrow's Child   Sorrow's Child   Spell   Stagalee   Stagger Lee   Still In Love   Stow-A-Way   Straight To You   Stranger Than Kindness   Sugar Sugar Sugar   Sunday's Slave   Sunday's Slave   Supernaturally   Suzanne   Swampland   Sweetheart Come   Texas midlands   That's What Jazz Is To Me   That's What Jazz Is To Me   The Ballad Of Robert Moore And Betty Coltrane   The Big Hurt   The Briddle Path   The Carnival Is Over   The Carny   The Curse Of Millhaven   The Dim Locator   The Friend Catcher   The Good Son   The Hammer Song   The Hammer Song (In Album Kicking Against The Pric...   The Kindness Of Strangers   The Loom Of The Land   The Lyre Of Orpheus   The Mercy Seat   The Moon Is In The Gutter   The Ship Song   The Singer   The Six Strings That Drew Blood   The Sorrowful Wife   The Train Song   The Weeping Song   The Willow Garden   The Witness Song   There Is A Kingdom   There Is A Light   There Is A Town   There She Goes   Thirsty Dog   Time Jesum Transeuntum et Non Riverentum   Time Jesum Transientum Et Non Riverentum   To Be By Your Side   Tower of Song   Train Long-suffering   Truck Love   Tupelo   Tupelo Blues   Up Jumped The Devil   Vixo   Wanted Man   Watching Alice   We Came Along This Road   Well Of Misery   West Country Girl   What a Wonderful World   What Can I Give You?   When I First Came To Town   Where Do We Go Now But Nowhere   Where The Action Is   Where The Wild Roses Grow   Where The Wild Roses Grow"(feat. Kylie Minogue   Wife   Wild Rose   Wild World   Wings Off Flies   Wonderful Life   Yard   You ask me to   Your Funeral My Trial   Your Funeral... My Trial   Zoo Music Girl

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